Tag: Bad manners

Welcome to America

Breakfast at Heathrow
Breakfast at Heathrow

10 October 2015

My nightmare about the check in at Heathrow turned out to be something of an omen for what was to come although not in quite the way I expected. Suffice to say, my welcome to America was not at all welcoming and most certainly not an experience I’ll be rushing to repeat. The following is a tale of woe that certainly doesn’t reflect on all my lovely American friends. It says more about the lack of organisation and common courtesy of the staff employed by American border control at JFK.  Continue reading Welcome to America

Buses, stairs, coffee and a crime scene – first published 22 April 2013

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In April 2013 a bus trip had me thinking about manners, or the lack of them. Perhaps it’s a sign of the advancing years but it seems the modern world is full of thoughtlessness and the bus is a good place to see examples of it. Then there was a walk through St Mary’s and a close encounter with another sad reality of life in the twenty first century. All in all it made me wish I lived in a gentler, more polite time.

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